[drupal-docs] Re: Comments on Admin Guide

[Richard Eriksson]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:36:44 -0800, Boris Mann <borismann at gmail.com> wrote:
> * permission stuff? users, roles, permissions

I added two sections (below) on permissions and roles, since they are
core Drupal concepts.  I added a note in HTML comments (a la Boris)
indicating that I wasn't too satisfied with what I came up with.

http://drupal.org/node/937

Permissions

Permissions control access to content creation, modification and site
administration. Administrators assign permissions to roles, then
assign roles to users. The first user of a Drupal site automatically
receives all permissions, no matter what role that user belongs to.

Roles

Roles are sets of permissions that can be applied to individual users.
Users can belong to more than one role. Two roles, authenticated user
(those users that sign up for an account) and anonymous users (those
either without an account or not logged in) comprise the initial role
of Drupal installs, but they can be configured and administrators can
add more roles on in addition to them.

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Richard Eriksson
Bryght Community Support
http://support.bryght.com/